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Here’s some more mandatory HC for y’all: The legendary PROCESS OF ELIMINATION compilation from 1981. Three pressings exist. The main diferences between them (apart from diff. label adresses and inserts): First two have silver labels with big holes (first with red print, second with black; 500 made of each) and a third pressing had a small spindle hole and yellow labels.
As you can hear, this babe is very raw and primitive and very, very charming! Every song on this pearl sounds like it couldn’t be held back for only more second. All bands bursting out with power and passion! Meatmen and Violent Apathy never did much for me (except for the killer “La Bamba” cover of the latter on the band’s one and only 7″). McDonalds seemed to be more of a joke band, but I love the short “Miniature Golf” hymn so much. Same goes for Youth Patrol of whom we know little. Toxic Reasons deliver an early version of “Riot Squad” and if you’ve never been been in a full scale riot with that song in your head, you definitely missed something! The remaining big three are the Necros, Negative Approach and The Fix. The Fix blow everything through the roof with their brutal power! I didn’t include the latter two, because I think you should buy the two official re-releases from Touch & Go Records: The essential Negative Approach and the must-have The Fix anthologies! Buy them at once if you don’t have them!

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You mentioned Violent Apathy never did much for you and I couldn’t get into their EP either but their demo is good and it was reissued on EP by Lost & Found records.
The Process Of Elimination EP is OK and I wouldn’t put it up there with a lot of the classics from T&G records.

I don’t think I was there, Niels. I kinda stopped going to gigs in the late 80s because I got so fed up and all. Hmmm, no, I don’t think I saw TR live in the 90s. Where was the gig? De Kift was your band at the time? Did you know that the ex-BGK drummer Marcel lives in ZÃ¼rich (I take pride in saying I played on his drum kit frequently, haha, when we shared the practice room with Fear Of God in 2003), as well as some guy of Morzelpronk?

I only got to see Toxic Reasons once in ’84 with Circle Jerks at the Olympic in L.A. and that was an awesome gig. Usually at the Olympic there would be three pits going on and during the Circle Jerks set all the pits combined into one huge swarming slam pit. I felt a sense of unity because no fights broke out. That might have been when the punk scene hit it’s peak cuz it didn’t get any better after that. It got worse with fucking gangs and skinheads.

I was a temporary member of De Kift back then (been a temporary member longer than I was a “regular” member!). There’s a whole Dutch punk colony in Zurich: Jeroen (ex-Frites Modern alter ego Frenz Fried & Frimo’s), Aad (ex-Zowiso, Morzelpronk), Rienk, as well as Marcel BGK. We had a great time, played Cafe Boy (now gone) and some pub that brewed their own “Vollmond” beer. I forgot where I saw TR. I also saw them back in ’84 in Am’dam, that was a great gig. First time I saw Pandemonium, too.

violent apathy must be the most boring us hardcore band ever. necros song is their best – so fast, tight and intense! their 2nd ep sounds really sloppy and weak when compared to this… i can`t understand it. did they reduce rehearsals between recording this and the ep?

don`t know. maybe it`s the sound. i remember when my mate bought a bootleg necros discography lp like two years back (worst bootleg i`ve ever seen by the way – no cover, just xero a4 sheet. sounded shitty too) – that was the first time i`ve heard this song, and first thing that came to my mind was – “wow! this sounds much tighter, way more powerful than the ep” i still stick to that first impression… haven`t heard the ep tracks for quite some time though – maybe i should give it a few listens…

Violent Apathy’s demo is much better than the EP. Necros EP was a little overrated but I’m sure it sounded great in ’81. Never heard it back then but I did have their Conquest For Death LP and that’s still their best release in my opinion.

a classic compilation. First time I heard Negative Approach. “1-2-1-2-3-4!!!” Violent Apathy weren’t all that great although two later songs on one of the “Master Tapes” comps were decent–kind of in a mid-tempo Iron Cross-ish vein